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| Jack and Rocky: You thought you won your battle with Amazon! HAHAHAHA |
However, my review for the Kindle Fire 6 which I also did that day, is still live on the review page.
So, rating Conservative political books 5 stars - ZAPPED - rating Kindle Fire 6 - remains.
I've sent yet another email into Amazon. There are other reviews missing also, though I'm not sure which ones. Amazon was showing I had 95 reviews written as of last night when I updated the missing reviews, however, this morning it's only showing 81. I think some older reviews are missing - I'm pretty sure I did a review for The Ten Commandments of Propaganda
by Brian Anse Patrick quite awhile ago and it's no longer there.
What Amazon is doing is frightening - quietly deleting reviews - whether for politics or recipe books, someone paid for the experience (or product) - Amazon most often receives the money, and then due to complaints or perhaps personal ideology, deletes reviews. I don't care if you took time to craft it well or made it brief - you took the time. As a consumer, I count on reviews and I am smart enough to look at a wide variety of reviews, look at other reviews the reviewers have made (it's easy to spot a phony) and then make my choice. Now, just imagine what Amazon is doing and apply it to our government controlling the internet. I can barley get any answers from Amazon! Have you ever tried to deal with the IRS? Have you heard any of the stories from the Vets who are falling rapidly through the system because there are so many departments, rules, regulations, and no one knows what the other is doing? And you think somehow the Government is going to "protect" you?
Here are the reviews and the email confirmation they went through (these were from last night, however, they are showing the original date I posted the review. Also, when they reposted the reviews, the comments were gone (I'd gotten a few angry ones on my Philosophy 100 review)
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 Life Shaping, February 1, 2015
By Laura Freed "Girl Medic" (Philadlephia, Pa)
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This review is from: The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (Paperback)
I've had a slow awakening - questioning everything I've been told (not taught!) in school. Wow. Had I had this book many years ago, or been taught the basic principals of this book, I think success and happiness in life would have arrived much sooner.
I have this on audio (usually hate audio narration but the narration of The Cave And The Light has a fantastic lyrical yet bold voice) and plan of purchasing Kindle because I am constantly pausing to jot down notes. This book starts with Socrates and works its way into present day - explaining where original questions/possible answers to lifes questions started (and with who). The people that give this book one star or less have been spoon fed into the belief that men are born evil, the world is evil, and they are superior and that collective is the only way to go (ah, but someone must always rule even in a collective society and that is where the negative reviewers come in, as rulers who know better). This book is easy to listen and coming in at over 700 pages - there are a few boring moments - but they are very rare which, in a book so full of content, is remarkable (for me, anyway!). This book has shaped my life for the better. It is remarkable. I wish they would require this in school - perhaps starting in 7th grade? Thank you Arthur Herman! |
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 Biased, December 30, 2014
By Laura Freed "Girl Medic" (Philadlephia, Pa)
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This review is from: Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers (Kindle Edition)
What I liked was that it was brief - only about 2 pages devoted to each philosopher. What I didn't like was that the author is very devoted to the idea of socialism and writes glowingly about Kant, Hegel, et al. If this were to be the first philosophy book I'd ever read, I might believe the very pretty, yet unrealistic, picture Stokes paints of those philosophers. I don't mind if an author is biased, as long as I know that going in.
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